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- Mr. Duncan was a Scottish Farmer. The family moved to NorthernIreland on account of religious persecution. He was a ProtestantPresbyterian. [See Mary Love Gerrity's notes.]
The ousting of many from England and Scotland was occurring frequentlyto many Protestants who lived in those countries, because of KingJames's edicts. Many only stayed one generation in Ireland (if thatlong even) before moving on to America. In North America they weretermed, "Scotch-Irish", although many who were Scottish and heard theterm became upset with it primarily because most of those of Scottishdescent did not inter-marry with the Island Irish. The Scotlandpeoples remained apart from the Irish in Ireland if they remained.There was and still is great animosity between the two sets ofpeoples. So much so that civil strife broke out often between them inIreland. The Scots kept to the North of the Irish Island, and theIrish inhabitants who were forced to give up their land to theseinvaders kept to the South. The Irish did rebell against the Scottishfolks and would not inter-marry with them either. Much of thisanimosity still exists in Belfast, Ireland today in the 21st centurymore than 200 years later between the Irish Catholics and the ScottishProtestants. There are many sources on this topic, and it does makefor very educational reading.
It is also known that the greatest bulk of George Washington's armywas Scotch-Irish, and Mr. Washington states in his memoirs veryspecifically about the Scotch-Irish bravey and tenacity in battle, andhow without them, America may not exist today as it does. If you havean opportunity to read about this you will certainly enjoy it, becauseit is not something that is taught in history books at schools as muchas it should be. By the way, most of the signers of The DeclarationOf Independence were of Scotch-Irish Descent. [SLJuhl, 06 Mar 2006]
There are no "Duncan's" listed owning land for 1823 in County Antrim,Ireland.
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Subject: Landowners
Author: jeanrice
Date: Sunday, November 14, 1999
Per genealogy library reference book, the following individuals ownedone or more acres of land in Co. Antrim, Ireland, the latter part ofthe 1870s:
64. James Duncan, address Islandmagee, owned 1 acre.
65. John Duncan, address Ballysillan, owned 1 acre.
66. John Duncan and William Houston, address Ballyreagh, Clough, owned14 acres."
[Trancribed 23 December 2006, SLJuhl, compiler]
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